Hog-ringing device



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W. W. LAMSON HOG RINGING DEvIpE Filed June' 26. 1922 lNVENTOR Patented July 3, 1923.

-UNITED STATES PATENT OFFMIE.

WILLIAM W. LAMSON', OF COLLINS, NEBRASKA.

HOG-RINGING DEVICE.

Application filed June 26, 1922 Serial No. 571,013.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that LWILLIAM W. LAMsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Collins, in the county of Arthur and State of Nebraska, have invented new and useful Improvements in. Hog-Ringing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to animal husbandry, and it contemplates the provision of a tool through the medium of which a hog ring may be readily and easily applied and as readily removed from a hog and this with but a slight amount of discomfort to the animal.

The invention further contemplates the provision of a tool that will produce a hog ring that will prevent the animal from uprooting shrubbery and the like, said ring being so bent by the tool in the nose of the hog that its casual displacement therefrom is effectually precluded.

The invention in all of its details will be fully understood from the following description and claim, when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 discloses a hog ring in side elevation as the same .appears before applied to a hog with my device.

Figure 2 illustrates the hog ring in its finished appearance,

Figure 3 is a front elevation of the finished ring.

Figure 4 is a view partly in section and partly in side elevation and showing my novel tool.

Figure 5 is a view showing a portion of one of the body members of the tool in section and showing the complementary tongue 4 terial comprises the portion 1 having a loop 5, the portion 2 and the portion 3 as well as the pointed end 4. The. said pointed end of the ring is so bent when inserted in the nose of a hog, that the said end will pass through the loop 5 and bear against the portion 6 that in turn is so bent that it rests against the portion 1 of the ring.

In order to insert the ring into a hogs nose, I provide the tool comprising .the grips 9 and 10 that terminate in the portions 7 and 8 and the said body portions are secured to and fulcrumed to each other by the bolt or pin 11. At their upper ends the body portions are provided with the gripping members 12 and 15, that are interiorly curved as indicated by 17. In said curved portion of one of the gripping members, I provide the kerf or channel that does not extend quite the full length of the curved portion and in the opposite gripping memher, I provide the depression 13 at the lower end of which is a channel 1 1 as shown in Figure 5.

In the practical use of the invention, the ring shown in Figure 1 is placed in the tool by inserting the looped end 5 of the ring in the depression 13. The pointed end of the ring is then pierced through the nose of the hog and after such insertion in the hog, the pointed end is then placed in the upper end of the channel 16. Pressure is then applied and this will force the pointed end 4 through the loop 5 and during the pressure on the pointed and looped ends the point will strike the lower end of the channel 14 and then pass through the loop 5 until it enters the depression 13. By turnlng or twisting the tool, the point will assume the position shown in Figure 3 where it will be precluded from becoming casually displaced.

It will be gathered from the foregoing that the device is simple to operate and any person either skilled or unskilled may use the device with equal facility.

The device is inexpensive to produce and comprises no delicate elements such as are liable to become inoperative after a short period of use.

If desired the ring may be inserted in the nose of the hog by hand and then clinched with the tool afterwards.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, 1s:

In a hog ringing device the combination of pivotal jaws, one of which is slightly longer than the other, handles depending from the jaws; one of said jaws having a depressed surface of similar construction throughout and having a channel in the direct longitudinal center thereof, and the other of the jaws having a depressed surface similar to the depressed surface of the first jaw but terminating :at a point further away from the free end of the jaw, a circular depression formed in ,the second jaw 5 with its median line on a" plafi'with' the fid of the first depression of the second jaw and a channel extending from a point beyond the lower portion of the first depression of the second jaw and at an angle of approxi- 10 mately 45 degrees and terminating slightly my 115m" in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM W. LAMSON. Witnesses LE0 Manrsol i; CLORA PLANT. .1 

